Scarecrow411
02-29-2008, 08:31 AM
They both fail.
Yes, it's totally time for an e/n thread. A tale of woe, treading upon bricks laid with the best intentions. If you read carefully, you too may discern the cautionary tale even through it's camoflage of attention whoring...
The pumpkin stood a mere 7 yards away. "Let's try some trap shot then." I said to my girlfriend as she stared in disbelief. 3 shells of 00 and one slug from a range of 15 yards and moving steadily closer with each miss. She wasn't consistently low, she had a good cheekweld, she had good stance. It was, as I suspected it always was, a lack of will. The #7 patterned tightly high and to the right of Halloweens sole surviving pumpkin, illuminated by my flashlight. Disheartened she passed the shotgun to me, "You try."
After cleaning up the pumpkin we went back to the company Christmas party. It was a good time plenty of liquor and food. Eventually the hour arrived for the raffle/gift giving bit. Few of the prizes were any good, who has need for a single 25lb dumbell (it's twin to be raffled off later?) What about an LED fishing pole bobber? I was only half paying attention when my number was called... What'd I win? Oh, hey, a Mossberg 500!
It was a 26" Real-Tree'd turkey model, selected for the raffle due to it's seniority in the proshop, but still, nothing to scoff at. Later as I filled out the paper work the manager advised "If you want store credit you'll have to wait until we sell it," he frowned suddenly, "'course it's been here for three years." I finished my paper work - I had settles on a course of action. You see my woman is left handed and has the upper body strength proportional to her level of physical activity - which apparently involves a diet based on cheese and talking on Ventrillo to her guildmates. What's the caloric burn caused by a dusty DDR Pad in the corner? With these traits in mind, I envisioned a 500 devoid of flashlights or sidesaddles and a shortened LOP. After all, we were just discussing when we'd (yes, both of us) be able to get to the range next. When to execute this plan though?
I decided it'd be *my* valentines day. I'd present her with the shotgun, cook her dinner, take her to the range and then back home... y'know, for stuff. I began researching stocks and settled on a Hogue. In particular, this one (http://www.hogueinc.com/getgrip/merchant.ihtml?pid=4616&lastcatid=18&step=4). Now it's important you click on that link and review it carefully. It does, indeed, bill itself as a "12" L.O.P. OverMolded Shotgun Stock Kit w/ forend for Mossberg 500."
And with such a description you would expect it to fit a Mossberg 500. Do you see any mention of adapters? Of variations of the venerable Mossberg 500? No, you don't and nor did I. So with ignorant bliss I ordered, received and snuck home to install the stock. Lo and behold! The forend proved to be a few inches too long? Dear god! Is my 500 defective? I pulled my other 500 from the safe and tried the forearm on it - No! The forend, specified for the Mossber 500, did not fit either of my Mossberg 500's! Surely a packaging error! Could I get this resolved in the short time prior to Valentines Day! As the object of my affections walked through the door I was emailing Hogue for guidance.
Days sped by with no response and alas, I was beginning to doubt my plan. What about a Nintendo DS? They're practically the best thing since sliced cheese, Dr. Pepper and air conditioning! Wasn't there another goon with a Mossberg 500 and some horrible failure of a forend? Was it, in fact, a Hogue stock set? Highmeh!
I mentioned it to him, and he advised that there was an adapter nut (you know, to make the Mossberg 500 forend fit a Mossberg 500) that cost $10. Of course his hogue forearm, adapter and all would come loose with a single shot of the lightest trap load. I could be the OEM forend on and just spray paint it black. That would be the sensible solution and no one would know! No one would know, except for me...
The time was nigh with no word back from Hogue and a filthy adapter required. I went hunting for the Nintendo DS only to find it out of stock. Utterly defeated I resigned myself to cooking Fondue (What cheese would you like dear?) and banking on the shotgun.
"Now dear, I still have to figure out what to do about the forend, but - what do you think of this?" I asked as I held out the Hogue induced ugly duckling. She hefted it, shouldered it, swung it back and fourth. "What about it?" she asked. My heart begin to fracture rushed to get the heavily laden ninja-tactical 870 - "Well try this for comparison."
"They feel about the same."
Well, why don't you just kick me in the nuts a couple of times, my love? We'll just set that next to the .22 1911 Conversion Kit, wrap them in DDR pad, pack it all into Bug out Bag (which she requested and sits completed in the corner, eagerly ready for the trip to her trunk) and then you can return to your guild and continue raiding for epics.
Smited by my girlfriend, Hogue, fate and the IRS I did the only thing I know how to do. I went to Brownells and ordered the adapter - the one that allows their Mossberg 500 forend to fit a Mossberg 500. Best $10 I'll ever spend. I'll get that shotgun squared away, take on my hikes, enjoy the fuck out of it, and one day, when my girlfriend gets around to wanting to shoot again she'll see it and fall in love with it and, and, and....
So the adapter nut (http://www.hogueinc.com/knowledgebase/SrchResult.asp) showed up in the mail today, along with some other stuff for a future article. Oddly enough I never received an email back from Hogue - that email shits just a fad anyways. I got home tonight, and went about to installing it.It doesn't seem to sit right in the forearm. It threads fine to the slide tube without the forend, but with the forend on it's just not quite...
Well we'll just pull the slide tube off... Oh, yeah, gotta remove the trigger group and bolt (The 870 seems more appealing every moment) to get to those. Now, what in the tarnation? The adapter nut doesn't line up with the slide tube. It's off quite a bit. Highmeh had mentioned some problems with these... I'm sure if I set to work with the file on the forend I can knock off enough material to reasonably straighten out this outstanding adapter nut.
So I set to work. A little here, test, a little there, test. By my third viewing of Ghost in the Shell on Cartoon Network I believe I have it. Victory is close at hand! Reassemble this bitch, go to sleep, wake up in 5 hours and go to work, assume title of King Of The World. Getting the bolt situated takes some dexterity, forend, slide tube, adapter nut... Coffee break. Seems like the forend wrench keeps slipping. None-the-less, I get the forend tightened down.
I function check my new, beautiful shotgun. Empty, safety and function lever function as expected. It takes a lot muscle to work the action though. A lot of - oh, the forend is rubbing. I'll just pull that off and...
Highmeh had mentioned some problems with these...and he advised that there was an adapter nut... that cost $10. Of course his hogue forend... would come loose with a single shot of the lightest trap load.
...the worse part was the adapter nut cross threaded...
Seems like the forend wrench keeps slipping.
Mother Fucker...
tl;dr
Be wary of Hogue Shotgun Stocks (at least for the Mossberg 500.)
Yes, it's totally time for an e/n thread. A tale of woe, treading upon bricks laid with the best intentions. If you read carefully, you too may discern the cautionary tale even through it's camoflage of attention whoring...
The pumpkin stood a mere 7 yards away. "Let's try some trap shot then." I said to my girlfriend as she stared in disbelief. 3 shells of 00 and one slug from a range of 15 yards and moving steadily closer with each miss. She wasn't consistently low, she had a good cheekweld, she had good stance. It was, as I suspected it always was, a lack of will. The #7 patterned tightly high and to the right of Halloweens sole surviving pumpkin, illuminated by my flashlight. Disheartened she passed the shotgun to me, "You try."
After cleaning up the pumpkin we went back to the company Christmas party. It was a good time plenty of liquor and food. Eventually the hour arrived for the raffle/gift giving bit. Few of the prizes were any good, who has need for a single 25lb dumbell (it's twin to be raffled off later?) What about an LED fishing pole bobber? I was only half paying attention when my number was called... What'd I win? Oh, hey, a Mossberg 500!
It was a 26" Real-Tree'd turkey model, selected for the raffle due to it's seniority in the proshop, but still, nothing to scoff at. Later as I filled out the paper work the manager advised "If you want store credit you'll have to wait until we sell it," he frowned suddenly, "'course it's been here for three years." I finished my paper work - I had settles on a course of action. You see my woman is left handed and has the upper body strength proportional to her level of physical activity - which apparently involves a diet based on cheese and talking on Ventrillo to her guildmates. What's the caloric burn caused by a dusty DDR Pad in the corner? With these traits in mind, I envisioned a 500 devoid of flashlights or sidesaddles and a shortened LOP. After all, we were just discussing when we'd (yes, both of us) be able to get to the range next. When to execute this plan though?
I decided it'd be *my* valentines day. I'd present her with the shotgun, cook her dinner, take her to the range and then back home... y'know, for stuff. I began researching stocks and settled on a Hogue. In particular, this one (http://www.hogueinc.com/getgrip/merchant.ihtml?pid=4616&lastcatid=18&step=4). Now it's important you click on that link and review it carefully. It does, indeed, bill itself as a "12" L.O.P. OverMolded Shotgun Stock Kit w/ forend for Mossberg 500."
And with such a description you would expect it to fit a Mossberg 500. Do you see any mention of adapters? Of variations of the venerable Mossberg 500? No, you don't and nor did I. So with ignorant bliss I ordered, received and snuck home to install the stock. Lo and behold! The forend proved to be a few inches too long? Dear god! Is my 500 defective? I pulled my other 500 from the safe and tried the forearm on it - No! The forend, specified for the Mossber 500, did not fit either of my Mossberg 500's! Surely a packaging error! Could I get this resolved in the short time prior to Valentines Day! As the object of my affections walked through the door I was emailing Hogue for guidance.
Days sped by with no response and alas, I was beginning to doubt my plan. What about a Nintendo DS? They're practically the best thing since sliced cheese, Dr. Pepper and air conditioning! Wasn't there another goon with a Mossberg 500 and some horrible failure of a forend? Was it, in fact, a Hogue stock set? Highmeh!
I mentioned it to him, and he advised that there was an adapter nut (you know, to make the Mossberg 500 forend fit a Mossberg 500) that cost $10. Of course his hogue forearm, adapter and all would come loose with a single shot of the lightest trap load. I could be the OEM forend on and just spray paint it black. That would be the sensible solution and no one would know! No one would know, except for me...
The time was nigh with no word back from Hogue and a filthy adapter required. I went hunting for the Nintendo DS only to find it out of stock. Utterly defeated I resigned myself to cooking Fondue (What cheese would you like dear?) and banking on the shotgun.
"Now dear, I still have to figure out what to do about the forend, but - what do you think of this?" I asked as I held out the Hogue induced ugly duckling. She hefted it, shouldered it, swung it back and fourth. "What about it?" she asked. My heart begin to fracture rushed to get the heavily laden ninja-tactical 870 - "Well try this for comparison."
"They feel about the same."
Well, why don't you just kick me in the nuts a couple of times, my love? We'll just set that next to the .22 1911 Conversion Kit, wrap them in DDR pad, pack it all into Bug out Bag (which she requested and sits completed in the corner, eagerly ready for the trip to her trunk) and then you can return to your guild and continue raiding for epics.
Smited by my girlfriend, Hogue, fate and the IRS I did the only thing I know how to do. I went to Brownells and ordered the adapter - the one that allows their Mossberg 500 forend to fit a Mossberg 500. Best $10 I'll ever spend. I'll get that shotgun squared away, take on my hikes, enjoy the fuck out of it, and one day, when my girlfriend gets around to wanting to shoot again she'll see it and fall in love with it and, and, and....
So the adapter nut (http://www.hogueinc.com/knowledgebase/SrchResult.asp) showed up in the mail today, along with some other stuff for a future article. Oddly enough I never received an email back from Hogue - that email shits just a fad anyways. I got home tonight, and went about to installing it.It doesn't seem to sit right in the forearm. It threads fine to the slide tube without the forend, but with the forend on it's just not quite...
Well we'll just pull the slide tube off... Oh, yeah, gotta remove the trigger group and bolt (The 870 seems more appealing every moment) to get to those. Now, what in the tarnation? The adapter nut doesn't line up with the slide tube. It's off quite a bit. Highmeh had mentioned some problems with these... I'm sure if I set to work with the file on the forend I can knock off enough material to reasonably straighten out this outstanding adapter nut.
So I set to work. A little here, test, a little there, test. By my third viewing of Ghost in the Shell on Cartoon Network I believe I have it. Victory is close at hand! Reassemble this bitch, go to sleep, wake up in 5 hours and go to work, assume title of King Of The World. Getting the bolt situated takes some dexterity, forend, slide tube, adapter nut... Coffee break. Seems like the forend wrench keeps slipping. None-the-less, I get the forend tightened down.
I function check my new, beautiful shotgun. Empty, safety and function lever function as expected. It takes a lot muscle to work the action though. A lot of - oh, the forend is rubbing. I'll just pull that off and...
Highmeh had mentioned some problems with these...and he advised that there was an adapter nut... that cost $10. Of course his hogue forend... would come loose with a single shot of the lightest trap load.
...the worse part was the adapter nut cross threaded...
Seems like the forend wrench keeps slipping.
Mother Fucker...
tl;dr
Be wary of Hogue Shotgun Stocks (at least for the Mossberg 500.)